Good news: Margaret Gratton, the extremely illiberal president of Orange Coast College, has announced her resignation. During her tenure at OCC, Gratton spearheaded such egregious administrative maneuvers as Professor Kenneth Hearlson's summary suspension last fall after several Muslim students falsely alleged that he called them terrorists. She also failed to initiate disciplinary action against the students when it was finally shown--with the help of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education--that Hearlson had not even come close to saying the things they claimed he said. You can read about Gratton's tenure at OCC, the Hearlson case, and FIRE's role in both at www.thefire.org. Go FIRE, good riddance Gratton, and best wishes to Professor Hearlson. Nobody deserves the libel you've seen.

And here's a keeper from The Onion: Study Finds Sexism Rampant in Nature. From the photo of a manly patriarchal lion mounting his grimacing mate (caption: "One of the millions of lionesses trapped in an abusive relationship") to the fabulous estimate that "in 2001 alone, more than 170 trillion cases of abuse occurred in the world's forests, grasslands, and oceans--all of them unreported," the piece is a satirical tour de force, skewering everything from the now-legendary false rape statistics propagated by Mary Koss, Susan Faludi, Naomi Wolf and others to the ideologically ludicrous work of Catherine MacKinnon, whose idea of feminist emancipation involves depriving straight women of the right to consent by arguing that all heterosex is de facto rape ("Under conditions of male dominance...if sex is something men normally do to women, the issue is less whether there was force than whether consent is a meaningful concept"). Go Onion, and thanks for the reminder that feminism could use a sense of humor.